Known war crimes

Soldiers from a company of SS-Totenkopf-Standarte 12 executed the patients in a large psychiatric hospital in Owińska, Poland. Over 1000 patients are estimated to have been taken away in trucks, shot and buried in mass graves. (1)

Commanders

SS-Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Sacks

Manpower strength

July 1940 2.650

Footnotes

1. "Soldiers of Destruction" by Charles W. Sydnor and "Murderous Elite: The Waffen-SS and its complete record of war crimes" by James Pontolillo, page 117.